CHALLENGES MOUNT FOR BANGLADESHI FACTORIES AMIDST WORKER UNREST AND CASUALTIES, STRAINING AN ALREADY FRAGILE MARKET
November 22nd, 2023
Garment manufacturers in Bangladesh have offered to increase minimum wages for their employees above an earlier offer of Bangladesh taka BDT10,400 (USD94) per month (up from today’s BDT8,000), but worker unrest this morning (Thursday) continued while negotiators debated the new rate.
These protests have turned violent, and on Monday (Oct 30) two workers were killed – one, claim unions, shot by a special unit of industrial police, based in manufacturing hub Gazipur, north of the capital Dhaka.
Faruque Hassan, the president of the Bangladesh Garment ...
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